John's Emails	Re: Webneurons
Webneurons		Re: Webneurons article
To: Ben Werdmuller <ben@werd.demon.co.uk> Hi Ben, Thanks for your Email. > a. Is there some kind of information pack or something you could email > us, because I want to do an article on you guys We are:- Frank Schuurmans, John Middlemas, Tim Murphy. More details on the "Instigators" page at:- http://brain.eu.org/807.htm Things are moving very fast. I only posted the original article 7 weeks ago. We haven't got an information pack yet but I will try to put something together. What we have got is most of the Email threads up on the Web. I have just updated this, and added a "Main topics" link from the homepage. This link is the closest we have at present to an information pack. > b. Is there any way we can help? Great offer! If you could organise the writing of a completely new (Web) Operating System for PC's based on the picture at:- http://brain.eu.org/799.htm (Doing it in 32 bit assembler) I would be most grateful. No, I'm only joking. But that would be the ideal solution. At present we are looking for a quick way to demonstrate the principles of a "live" webneuron network and what it could do. Current thoughts (today) are to modify the Emacs browser to handle the HTML extensions mentioned in:- http://brain.eu.org/564.htm (Original posting) This would enable a first attempt to happen fairly quickly. It may be sluggish in operation though. Alternatively, as a more rigourous attempt we are considering doing something in C++ on Linux, and going below HTML. The webneuron concept can (I believe) work at any level of computing, even down to hardware, where you will end up with one "nanoprocessor" per webneuron. The nanoprocessor would have its own local (unshared) memory to allow top speed. In the assembler version you wouldn't use (slow) files at all. "Structures" in RAM replace files and will be very quick. This also means any webneuron OS does not have files! Each webneuron contains all the information about itself and its linked neighbours and a webneuron network can be assembled like leggo bricks. In fact it would elf-assemble straight from hard disc to RAM. The main idea is that the whole of the software and data world can eventually be linked up in a mammoth "superbrain" network of webneurons that are dead easy to program, completely mappable starting from any point, and self-similar allowing totally smooth zooming to any level. Database, spreadsheet, in fact all applications, would be programmed using the same webneuron building blocks (structures) and linking principles. The superbrain would absorb the present WWW. Did you find us via the New Scientist article? I hope you don't mind but I have added a page about your magazine at: http://brain.eu.org/822.htm Please tell me if this is not OK. If it is, then a reciprocal link to the Webneuron site would be in keeping with a main priniple of webneurons, i.e. every link should have a return link, so that the network remains mappable. Look forward to your reply.